Košice 20th electoral district

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The Košice 20th electoral district ('XX. Košice') was a parliamentary constituency in the First Czechoslovak Republic for elections to the Chamber of Deputies. The seat of the District Electoral Commission was in the town of Košice. [1] The constituency elected 7 members of the Chamber of Deputies. [2] [3] [4]

First Czechoslovak Republic 1918-1938 republic in Central/Eastern Europe

The First Czechoslovak Republic was the Czechoslovak state that existed from 1918 to 1938. The state was commonly called Czechoslovakia. It was composed of Bohemia, Moravia, Czech Silesia, Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia.

Košice City in Slovakia

Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia and in 2013 was the European Capital of Culture. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 240,000 Košice is the second largest city in Slovakia after the capital Bratislava.

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Demographics

The boundaries of the Kosice 20th electoral district as well as Nové Zámky 16th electoral district had been drawn to maximize the number of Hungarian and German voters in these districts. [5] 96% of all Hungarians and 59% of all Germans in Slovakia lived in these two electoral districts. [5]

The 1921 Czechoslovak census estimated that the Košice 20th electoral district had 400,669 inhabitants. [3] Thus there was one Chamber of Deputies member for each 57,238 inhabitants, far more than the national average of 45,319 inhabitants per seat. [3] [5] [6] Only the Užhorod 23rd electoral district (i.e. Subcarpathian Rus') had a higher amount of inhabitants per seat that the Košice districts in all of Czechoslovakia. [3] [5] As of the 1930 census Nove Zámky 16th electoral district had the third-highest number of inhabitants per seat (61,729/seat), after Užhorod and Nové Zámky. [7]

Užhorod electoral district (Czechoslovakia)

The Užhorod electoral district was a parliamentary constituency in Czechoslovakia for elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The constituency covered all of Subcarpathian Ruthenia. The electoral district elected nine deputies in all elections held in the constituency during the First Czechoslovak Republic. The numbers of electors per each parliamentary seat was the highest in the Užhorod compared to all other electoral districts.

Senate elections

In election to the Senate the Košice 20th electoral district and the Nové Zamky 16th electoral district together formed the Nové Zámky 9th senatorial electoral district (which elected 9 senators), [2] in spite of the fact that the two electoral districts were geographically separated. [5]

1929 election

PartyVotes%
  Provincial Christian-Socialist Party 70,47437.19
  Republican Party of Agrarian and Smallholding Peoples 29,86515.76
  Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 29,51815.58
  Hlinka's Slovak People's Party 19,37610.22
  Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party 12,7926.75
  Czechoslovak National Socialist Party 7,4673.94
 United Jewish and Polish Parties4,9912.63
  Czechoslovak National Democracy 4,9122.59
  Czechoslovak Traders' Party 4,0372.13
  German Electoral Coalition 1,9451.03
  Czechoslovak People's Party 1,6010.84
  Provincial Party of Smallholders, Entrepreneurs and Workers 1,1680.62
  German Social Democratic Workers Party 1,0110.53
  League Against Bound Tickets 3480.18
Total189,505100

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